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    Float Switch Failure- Take Two

    This forum has been a great help in times past in providing guidance for setting up float switches in a cistern. I have a dry hole for a well, with the well pump (protected) flowing into a cistern from which a house supply pump pressurizes storage tanks. Initially I had one float switch acquired...
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    Float Switch Failure

    Gentlemen, Sorry to be in absentia for the later responses, but to verify- this is a float switch in a cistern. I've got our well pump pumping into a cistern (the well is a "dry hole" with the submersible pump protected by a Pumptec). The float switch controls the well pump with a separate...
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    Float Switch Failure

    Thank you much gentlemen. As consent is unanimous, I've obviously got some upgrading to do. Quick question- is there an alarm switch you could point me to? I could improvise, but if there's an easier way I'm all for easy. Thanks again!
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    Float Switch Failure

    Fourteen months after successfully installing a float switch in my cistern to control the water level fed by a well pump (credit due to members of this forum who patiently saw me through the exercise), the switch evidently failed me last night as I awoke to an inch of water in my finished...
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    Contactor Question

    I don't know if this question might be better posed on an electrical forum, but here goes: With my newly installed (cistern) float switch controlling a definite purpose contactor which provides power to a Pumptec protector, I am observing the following: when the water level drops from laundry...
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    Float Switch Question

    Thanks guys. As the weather is no longer balmy and I'm short on enthusiasm for moving that roughly 500 lb. concrete cistern lid again, I may be willing to live with a less than optimum water level for a spell. Appreciate the input! DM Afton, Virginny
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    Float Switch Question

    Many thanks in tardy fashion, Bob. I guess I need to don the wetsuit (if only I had one) and descend into the cistern for a re-adjustment of the switch. Thanks again. DM Afton, Virginny
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    Float Switch Question

    Having "completed" my well-to-cistern project I have a question after observing the operation of the float switch itself. Before installing the switch I tested it in-hand with a Fluke meter and it would consistently activate at anything short of vertical. I have slowly been filling the cistern...
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    Fitting Question

    Thank you for your rapid reply, Cass; that fitting sounds by-passable to me! Your query had me spooked, to I had to look: Thanks again! DM
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    Fitting Question

    Greetings again, folks. I am deep into my well discharge pipe-to-cistern project which thus far has gone swimmingly with much thanks to this forum. I am approaching the final connection stage and need to ask if anyone could advise me on this fitting: The black poly coming in from the left is...
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    Well pump dead?

    I'm a newbie neophyte to this forum and to plumbing in general, but make my living in an electro-mechanical world. That most certainly is a start capacitor, and a leaking capacitor is a toasted capacitor. If you can't find one locally McMaster-Carr has your cap for $4.54 (p/n 7245K105) and were...
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    Discharge Pipe Into Cistern

    Welp, if I were to retract and rephrase my question, it would be: "Is power-cycling a plug-in transformer considered taboo?" Speedbump, I had seen your illustration elsewhere but couldn't make it out clearly. I believe you have provided me with my solution. Thanks(!) from a Tampa native. DM...
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    Discharge Pipe Into Cistern

    Me (post originator) again, and my ignorance is still showing. I ordered a liquid level float switch from McMaster-Carr (p/n 51445K91), along with a high amp, 24v control voltage relay. My line of thinking was that I could get a normally closed loop out of the float switch which I could run 24...
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    Discharge Pipe Into Cistern

    Gentlemen, Thanks for your insight. I will take all of this into account as I go into this project. I do have a Pumptec for protection on the well pump, but hadn't given any thought to protecting the cistern pump. I appreciate your help and this forum! DM Afton, Virginny
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